Cleanliness Is Close to Confession

In the trial of Laura Hall for her role in the death of Jennifer Cave, don't look for prosecutors to be holding a smoking gun. They're looking for a squirting fabric freshener instead.

The case is built in part on the theory that Miss "That's just how I roll" Hall gave self-confessed killer Colton Pitonyak a shopping list of what was needed to clean up the grisly crime scene before they fled to Mexico.

Pitonyak's lawyers have always tried to put the blame for the brutal dismemberment on Hall, saying she was responsible for planning the mutilation of Cave's body, while their client did the murder. Part of their argument for putting Hall in the frame depends on the idea that men are just too plain slobby and slothful to really clean up a crime scene. The shopping list included a saw, garbage bags, cleaning agents, and, most damning of all, some Febreze odor eliminator.

Yes, reports the Statesman, Pitonyak's defense thinks they've found an answer: "What guy is going to think of Febreze?" said Pitonyak's lawyer Sam Bassett.